1879 in literature - Definition

See also: 1878 in literature, other events of 1879, 1880 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Rabelais Club founded in London, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George Du Maurier.

New Books

• Beau Nash - William Harrison Ainsworth
• The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
• The Cloven Foot - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Daisy Miller - Henry James
• The Egoist - George Meredith
• The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
• - Louisa May Alcott
• John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope
• Kings in Exile - Alphonse Daudet
• The Red Room - August Strindberg
• Roda Rummet - August Strindberg
• A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
• Les Soeurs Vatard - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Births

• January 1 - E.M. Forster (d. 1970)
• April 14 - James Branch Cabell, (d. 1958)
• October 2 - Wallace Stevens, poet (d. 1955)
• December 24 - Émile Nelligan, poet (d. 1941)

Deaths

• February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
• October 31 - Jacob Abbott, writer

Awards